Services - Clean Horizon

Our scope of work for energy storage

From design to commissioning, including procurement, due diligence and profitability monitoring, Clean Horizon’s value added is our capability to use the same methods at the design phase and during operation, maximizing investor’s confidence

Market Analysis

We assist project developers, technology providers, integrators, and EPCs in understanding the main value streams for energy storage along with identifying the geographies that offer the best business case for energy storage

Introduction to energy storage markets

Overview of technologies
Global lessons learned and market trends
Raw material price, battery degradation, fire risk
Recycling and repurposing,
Long duration storage

Economic & Regulatory analysis

Overview of specific power markets, installed capacity per country, market size forecast
Revenues accessible for storage
Help understand and shape regulations

Business plan optimization

Market analysis, revenue stream analysis in different regions
Battery storage optimal sizing, replacement and augmentation strategies
Development of optimal storage trading strategy on the markets to build the revenue stack
Building the business case for storage systems

Competitive analysis

Technology, technical & economic analysis
Competitive landscape

COSMOS

COSMOS, Clean Horizon Optimal Simulation of Market Operations for Storage, is a simulation tool for project sizing, performance analysis and optimization

In particular, COSMOS tool allows :

To determine optimal sizing for different configurations for the storage system

To calculate the cashflows, NPV and IRR

To easily generate sensitivity analyses

To optimize dispatch and to find an optimum scenario

Price Forecast

Clean Horizon provides electricity and ancillary services price forecasts for building a reliable business model for energy storage projects. This service includes:

Overview of the market for energy storage:

Evolution of the energy storage market & key players
Revenue streams: future opportunities and risks

Results for 3 scenarios of the price forecast for energy and ancillary services within the granularity corresponding to each market.

Starting from Q4 2023, our price forecasts for France and Germany include revenues associated with the continuous intraday market

Revenue stack and business model obtained with optimization tool COSMOS

Results of simulation for sample projects (1h, 2h, 3h, 4h batteries)

Technical Consulting

Clean Horizon provides owners’ engineering services for energy storage projects starting from project sizing and initial design, optimizing the storage configurations, to the procurement support, contract negotiation, audit and commissioning.

To date, we have designed/audited over 10GWh of energy storage projects, the majority of which are operational.

Feasibility studies

Site and environmental constraints analysis
Feasibility of access to grid connection
Available land and suitability to BESS installation
Power system studies

Development support

Permitting documentation
Grid connection authorizations
Environmental authorization
Management of fire risk

Supplier selection and contract negotiation

Drafting and administering RFP
Communication with suppliers
Contract negotiation

BESS site commissioning and auditing

Construction site audit
Test protocols
Review of Factory and
Site Acceptance tests
Support to taking over

This service ensures a better visibility of your
interactions with the Route to Market
operator

It allows to provide a quantitative audit of its performances

The results serves as a basis for discussing billing with your Route to Market operator

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